Russia-Ukraine War (continuing)

Looks like Russia could try open a new front into Ukraine on the route Ukraine used to take Kursk.

Hopefully they don't get far into Sumy. Imagine taking Kursk away from Ukraine's negotiations and giving Russia Sumy.

there is ABSOLUTLY NO COMPARISON between Putin’s conditions for a cease fire and the ones VZ put forward. So I hope that Trump takes note of this.

this peace process is SOOOOOOOO UNPRECIDENTED. Why?
(1). The peacemaker indicating the way things might go BEFORE discussions about peace even started

(2) The peacemaker/facilitator is required to be TOTALLY NEUTRAL at all times but not here

• Trump saying that Putin is easier to deal with
• Now referring to the division of assets - between who?
• Specifically referring to where the ownership of the nuclear driven energy plant goes to
• Etc, etc, etc.

(3) Leaving out the EU. The EU has ‘skin in the game’ for a number of reasons. Trump saying that it has essentially no right to be at the table because it has done ‘nothing ‘ over the past Three years to resolve it and it is also not playing its part in funding NATO. These are only opinions as to justifying leaving The EU out.

(4) the adversary ‘ apparently ‘picked the US negotiating team

In summary, I think that there should be no agreement made at any level until the EU is fully involved in all aspects . There needs to be a counterbalance to the US - if that is to be the new way of facilitating a meeting/s’ between two sides

Honestly the way I see it unless there's a major movement that goes full tilt against the Regressives, MAGAts, liberty thieves and blatant crony corruption and welfare billionaires, the US is only going to continue to decline in power and prestige in the long run. The US is badly in need of reform at this point and the longer they fail to address the core problems rotting their country the worse it's going to be for them down the line.

If anything there's an irony here, the US got to top spot in the world because the European Powers that existed more than a century ago were ruined by 2 world wars that destroyed the continent. It would be incredibly ironic in a sense that the US playing with fascism were to result in the EU reforming itself through necessity into a full federation and ascending to the top spot through rule of law and integrity along with a major drive to ramp up the European MIC to a level where the likes of Vatnik Russia won't dare fúck around with us all anymore without the risk of getting a punch in the face. This is doable too the only 2 problematic governments are Slovakia and Hungary, the former is at serious risk of a election that could see Fico ejected from power and as for that Toad Orban hes at increasing risk of getting the boot as well. Get rid of them and there's a window of opportunity to act decisively to make it happen.

Interesting you bring up Slovakia and Hungary there and the situations that might emerge there. I think in a general sense not just in Slovakia and Hungary but throughout the EU and wider Europe that one of the silver linings of the US turning towards authoritarianism is that just like the disaster that was brexit showed other euroskeptics that actually leaving the EU was a really bad move so does the US move towards authoritarianism show voters in Europe that the idea of actually putting one of the far right parties in Europe in power is equally a really bad move. Time will tell if that does indeed come to pass in Europe but I think it might very well happen and prove to be a silver lining to the US turn towards authoritarianism.

The Trump administration appears to be about to give Russia all of their war aims in return for a peace deal. Mind boggling. What does Putin have on Trump?

I will laugh if because of this Ukraine has Nukes back in play within a few years of this war ending. They can do it, they certainly WILL likely do it. Nukes are the only deterrence and the legacy of Putin and Trump will be that the only way to kowtow idiots of their calibre is that you need to have nukes in reserve as the ultimate deterrence and insurance against vainglorious invaders.

We'll probably end up with jokes of Poland and Ukraine threating to outdo each other to "do the funni" first on Vatnik Russia in a few years at this rate.

Its that time again

The US withdrew from the body investigating responsibility for the war today.

Can’t tell if it’s just laughable now or just… well can’t decide

Trump announcing the release of the JFK files tomorrow afternoon (EST) is clearly an attempt to take the heat out of his capitulation to Putin's demands once details of their call are released tomorrow.

It's so fricken obvious.

specifically mentioning power stations (Most likely the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant) and ports.

When his mate Al Assad had to run out of Syria, Russia lost their port at Tartus so they're on the market for a new one

I can’t see the Ukrainians giving all that up for nothing. Not even security guarantees are worth that deal.

What happens with Kherson?
Id love to know if Russia attacked Alaska, would trump be rushing to make a deal and give parts of Alaska to Russia.
would he in my bollocks

II reckon The ukraines are working on nuclear weapons. They have the scientists for sure as an old nuclear state.

If zelensky has them pointed towards Russia there would be peace pretty quickly.

But that's literally terrorism. Ukraine would never stoop so low